This paper discusses some results of an exploratory study in five schools in the city of Santiago de Chile. The prospects of young people on various topics related to history were collected through a survey of 44 questions, 180 sophomores in High School participated in the study. The sample includes public and private schools in different districts of the Region Metropolitana. The article is specifically focused on the results obtained in the first six questions in the questionnaire, these questions were related to the forms adopted by historical learning in the school context. The most relevant results show the high value that give young people the study of history, recognition of a strong link between the historical problems and their practical life, all this with a strong presence of practices and forms of learning traditional type. The results were analyzed from a theoretical perspective which emphasizes concepts such as historical learning, narrative and historical consciousness conceiving learning history as a synthesis of experiences that go beyond school education.